Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rather a horrid mist ; you felt as if it might be concealing peering , grinning creatures who were being very careful to stay just out of sight , but who were creeping after you as you rode along , or who were tiptoeing on ahead of you , rubbing their hands together , waiting until you reached them … |
| 2 | The er , that kind of thing is never published , and or even , of course , it ca n't be published normally , and the result is that when analysts draw conclusions based on this very confidential data , or who were talking vastly extent . |
| 3 | Saw one one lad was really really sort of well okay he was n't clever by any stretch of the imagination but he just , was just a you know a sort of no-hoper and he he riled one teacher up very very badly one day cos he did n't do his homework or he was pratting about or he was you know . |
| 4 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 5 | Dolly Nobody or Whatever was coming along . |
| 6 | No one seemed to know what the situation was or what was going on but the diplomats , at least , had prepared for the worst . |
| 7 | It was very different from the Manson Family in that no drugs were allowed , and no orgies or anything were going on . |
| 8 | The motorwagons were gone , and everyone was drifting away . |
| 9 | People were frantically packing up fruit and vegetable stalls , pushing carts and animals into their homes ; shutters were being banged tightly shut and everyone was shouting in loud , clattering voices . |
| 10 | Well , no , and everyone was running up the slate |
| 11 | People were getting tired , and everyone was sitting about . |
| 12 | The tea and cakes had been cleared and everyone was sitting now in the big couch and the two fireside armchairs . |
| 13 | And everyone was saying well it was a shame you 've got this far . |
| 14 | The bitter weather was ending and everyone was feeling more cheerful when Joe was due to come on leave , but shortly before he arrived his mother had a vivid dream in which she saw him lying dead on a battlefield . |
| 15 | By this time my mother and me were getting on just a little bit better . |
| 16 | I could n't stop him and I was so frightened that horse , machine and me were going over that I jumped off . |
| 17 | What with that and a few crazy reports to him about my off-duty life-style flying about he decided United and me were going nowhere together . |
| 18 | Adrian and me were going out and all that , I just did n't notice anything else . |
| 19 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 20 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 21 | He and I were eating heartily when Byron threw down his fork and cried , ‘ Oh for the horrors of polite society again ! |
| 22 | One November afternoon Leithen and I were coming home from a ride . |
| 23 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 24 | Ken Pitt : ‘ It was 1968 and David and I were going across to Germany quite often to do television shows and on one occasion , the producer whose name was Gunther Schneider , asked us if David would be interested in doing a half-hour programme with him . |
| 25 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 26 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 27 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 28 | Karen and I were waiting here nobody invi we sat in all night and watched T V actually . |
| 29 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 30 | I tell it just as it happened , from where we ran up the hill almost straight into the man ; I leave out what Andy and I were doing just before , and the man 's line about dirty , perverted things . |